Vote for the best verboticism.

'The salesman told me I didn't need to pay a cent.'

DEFINITION: n. The type of headache you get from buying too many things with your credit card. Note: Symptoms do not usually appear until the following month.v. To buy yourself a huge credit card headache.

Create | Read

Verboticisms

Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...

You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.

Bankruptalgia

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: bankrupt-al-gee-a

Sentence: In a fit of pique, Morgan went on a shopping expedition with the corporate credit card purchasing a fleet of vehicles, upgrading PCs for all the staff and treating them all to a long liquid lunch. In addition to their hangovers, they also suffered bankruptalgia the next month when the company went broke and they all lost their jobs.

Etymology: bankrupt + algia (pain) - inspired also by the rupture of a blood vessel in an aneurism

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Anything with "-algia" in it gets my vote. But don't hold me to that. - Clayton, 2007-07-04: 12:04:00

Hey Clayton - there are 3 definitions today with algia in them - petaj's sounds the most severe though - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 15:46:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Plasticgraine

Created by: MisUndrstd

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

| Comments and Points

Owetaglia

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: o tal jee ya

Sentence: Maya Graine regularly got bad headaches, especially after the mailman came to her house. She went to a doctor who told her that she suffered from owetalgia, a disease caused by excessive credit card debt. Maya thanked him for his interest, compounded the problem by going on a shoe sales spree and maxed out her Bastardcard.

Etymology: Owe (to be indebted to) & otaglia (an ache localized in the middle or inner ear)

| Comments and Points

Billiousness

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: bill eee us ness

Sentence: Her recent bout of plastic splurgery left her with billiousness and a strange empty feeling in her purse.

Etymology: bilious (nausea) bill, IOU,

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

love the plastic splurgery - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 12:17:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Moneyisticsoverintiowwoww

Created by: newspapertragedy

Pronunciation: money-is-tics-over-in-ti-ti-oww-oww

Sentence: After buying over 1,000 things with her credit card, Susie was having a severe case of Moneyisticsoverintiowwoww

Etymology: *blank*

| Comments and Points

Billgrains

Created by: blondibabi121692

Pronunciation: bill granes

Sentence:

Etymology:

| Comments and Points

Visache

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: viz-ayk

Sentence: Her visaches were just as intense as her chocolate induced migraines.

Etymology: Visa + headache

| Comments and Points

Debtache

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: det - aik

Sentence: After her Sunday spending spree, Nancy came home with a splitting debtache. Good thing that she had purchased ten bottles of Tylenol on sale. When she received the bill, she finished off the other nine bottles.

Etymology: debt, arche, play on headache

| Comments and Points